Adam Schefter shares funny story on the Pat McAfee Show about Jerry Jones breaking the news on Schottenheimer.

If there’s one thing NFL fans love to do, no matter what time of year, it’s rant and rave about anything and anyone involved with the League. Dallas Cowboys owner and recent Landman guest star Jerry Jones has certainly heard and earned his share of armchair-quarterback commentary over the years,

Jones: 'He's had 25 years being around the kinds of things that he's gonna have to draw on to be a coach of the Dallas Cowboys."

DALLAS — Dallas Cowboys owner and GM Jerry Jones defended Brian Schottenheimer as his choice for head coach at a news conference Monday. Fans and pundits alike have been criticizing his pick. "Doesn't look like they're really going out to try to improve anything, looks like it's status quo," said fan Wesley Bryan.

Here’s hoping Schotty is more successful than most of his predecessors in Jerry’s great experiment. We’ll see. Like the rest, he’ll need a lot of luck. He’ll also need to be a lot better than his GM. The good news is it’s a low bar. That’s also the bad news.

Brian Schottenheimer is a first-time head coach, & his 1st task will be to convince Jerry Jones to do what he wants.

The first question was about why Jones hired Schottenheimer as head coach. Ten minutes of emotional rambling later, the tone was set, and it felt familiar to anyone who's followed the Cowboys in recent decades.

In order to move forward and see where your Cowboys might be headed years from now, we must first look back. The local team was actually just one of four to unveil a new coach Monday, but their announcement was the only one that came with an intermission.

The curious part is that Brian has been an assistant coach since 1998, and while he had the tag of “Hot Assistant Coach” for a while, it faded. He’s served as an analyst, a quarterbacks coach, a tight ends coach, and an offensive coordinator since he started his career with the St. Louis Rams, in 1997.

There’s no doubt who around here has the last word in calling the shots. That's Jerry. But McClay is about as instrumental as anyone to the success Dallas has experienced - and a foundational person when it comes to future success.

As far as operational, I’m as content if I got hit by a car tomorrow that the management of the future has been prepared,'' Cowboys owner Jerry Jones says ... colorfully.